The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-06
HISTORY OF CHRIST CHURCH
Interesting "reminiscences By a Few of
the Early Workers in the Parish.
and Reviews by Others of What Has Been
Done by the Women of the Church.

Done by the Women of the Church.
In the semi-centenniaI celebration Of Christ
Church. yesterday vas devoted to women's
work in the church and in connection with it
In the morning Rev. Ingram delivered dis
course on ''Woman's Work" He said ..Wom-
ans work begins with woman's life-with wom-
anhood-and ends only with her death. No; it
lives after death. 1t is inwrought into every
thing on earth. Like the warm cheering, life
everywhere, and give life, and beauty, and
color to all things is womans work. and that
which is part of her work-her influence. 1t
is the work of love, and love never failetn.' It
begins at home in the family. It begins
with the mothers work. To the little child the
mother is as God. The Lord said to Moses.
Thou shalt be to Aaron instead Of God
mother is to her little one in the place Of God.
Her face is to her little child Heaven. Her
voice the voice of an angel, and she, who
gave it life, as its model and mou;der for eter-
nifty. The father speaks authoritatively and
cutwardly. The mother inbreatnes her life, her
soul, her being into the childs lifa, aud soul and
being The mother makes the man. When
the boy leaves home to go out into the
world it is the mother TO whom his thoughts turn
with yearning and inconsistencies
Woman's work VIII never cease, for its end is
labor. woman to love. 1t comes from God.
God is love. Love is the atmosphere of heaven.
and it must be again the atmosphere of earth.
Christ came to restore it to US. By his love
must every valley which separates mankind be
filed, and every mountain and hill which bar
ricades one nation from another be brought low,
and the crooked made straight, aud the rough
ways smooth, and all flesh the salvation Of
God And much of this will be 'woman's work.
Already she has done wonderfully She, with
all her natural timidity, with sneers and ridi-
Guile attacking her. she has taken hold of tho
education of women and lifted it mp; she has
entered the college of medicines proper pacefor
her, and mitigated the suffering of her She
has even entered the courts of law where her in
fuence may yet be felt She has engaged in
the defense OF better wages for her sex. SC that
woman doing the work OF man shall have
the wages of man. She, the great sufferer
from intoxicating liquors, has dared to take hold
of the question with both hands. Banterne
mon of Israel were nightly op-
pressed by tho King of Canaan, and sat
arose and delivered them from their slavery,
women Of to-day while until lately the men OF
our country have suffered themselves to be
woman. has arisen in her weak
ness. turned her weakness into power. and ia
giving liberty and rest to the enslaved men OF
America. But womans work is not yet done. it
is only begun. Wars must cease entirely. The
human race must be melted into brother
hood. Love muse do this work Chrisfs gospel
ticed, sand it must begin its work at home
It is vel! to send our missionaries to the heather.
But it is better to let the heather see the prac.
tica operation OF the Christian law OF love, the
law of brotherhood the law of really loving ones
neiehbor ones self. the law of ministering to
others as "Chrlst came not to be mnistered
unto but to minister" tho law OF living to
on's self. of each man looking not upon his own
interests only, but the interests of others; th<
law that We are not our own, but Christ's; that
nothing in our hands s ours, but His; that all
diRclniaS-hi0h cd
and ignorant, rich and poor-are "brethren"
Christ's brethren and therefore our brethren.
has done much but must do more, not only in
regard TO the wage question and the temperance
question. the Sunday question and the impurity
question. My friends, may He who holderh the
seven stars in His right hand, who walketh in
the midst Of the seven golden candlesticEs. the ,
churches accept and bless your works and la
faithful workers TO eat of the tree OF life which
is in the midst of the paradise of God"
The afternoon meeting was strictly woman's
meeting all the addresses being made by wom-
en-, and many interesting matters in the history
of the church were brought to memory by their
addresses The first paper read was extract
beth M. Martin recently deceased, which re-
counted the early experiences of the charge.
She says: I'VE moved 20 Indianapolis in tha
year 1921. In the year 1s43 there not
more than . dozen baptized Episcopalans in
town. We would meet in q small room on
Washington street. over Houston Talbotts jew
church. William II. Morrison, now deceased,
would remember the little band that met in
that room. They commenced and built good
sized frame church whore Christ Church now
stands Il was in the year 1874 1845. don't
rsmemb Der which. think the first rector we
had was a MIR. Hunter and the next Mr.. Brit
ton."
The next paper was by Miss McDouough on
the work of the young ladies of the church She
'aid About twenty-five years ago, it
seems that the married and young ladies worked
together
noon with their sewing. The young gentlemen
.ame in to tea The first society Of girls was
By the sale of fancy-work they raised enough
money to buy the communion service. Satur-
lay. Nov. 3. 1881, The Cleaners were organ
zed, with seventeen members. These girls, by
heir work, earned enough to buy the organ for
the chapel Nov. Is, 1883, the Young Ladies'
4uild was organized There were three reasons
or organizing this guild-frst. to excite an
interest for church work among the young people:
second, to assist in every way We could
n the work of the church; and third. to promote
In the four years the guild has
oeen organized, it has raised sos 40 for the use
IF the church. On Oct 4. 1886. an Altar Guild
# seven ladies was formed. The work Of this
guild consists in having the elements of Holy
Communion properly placed at every celebra-
ion; that the linen is nicely lauudried; to
change altar cloths the churchs seasons
change; to have the church decorated on festival
lays and to place flowers on the altar often
AZ it is possible to get them. On May ], of this
year, the older girls of the Sunday school wers
organized
,rs. They do sewing and fancy work for the
benefit of any church work they may choose
The Mission Church has had two societies.
The first, known as St. Georges Mission Guild.
devoted itself to raising money for the mission.
The present society. known The Cleaners,
8 engaged in similar work. On last Friday
. society not strictly within the church. but
with it. was organized. It is called
The st. Cyprians' Missionary Society. Its first
work will be to tack comforts for tho Newsboya
Home. Money raised thereafter will be con-
ributed chiefly to the 'orphanage fund.
The next paper was by Mrs. r. r Parker.
IN the Charities of Christ Church She said
hat the first church school was opened in the
building now known the Pyle House. Tho
principal teacher WAS the Rev. Samuel johnson,
bird rector of Christ Church. He was assisted
~ his sister and Miss Sr:allwood. The
school was called ST. Mary's. It was
luite successful for few years.
Mrs. John Love, Mrs. Reginald Hall,
Miss McChesney. and Mrs William Mansur